at one time and will eventually move out view, the world in the cave is the sensory world, the world of "being". When the person escapes the cave, he is able to experience the real objects in their purest sense. He is able to appreciate the beauty of the real world like he had never imagined before. He realizes that the objects that he saw in the cave were mere shadows of the real objects that he can behold now. This also affirms Plato's theory that for
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